The Google Assistant was able to turn the lights on and off for a while, but so far it could only do so immediately. This meant he didn’t have the ability to run a timer and perform the action after the time was up. Luckily, the digital assistant just got smarter and can now operate your lights for any time or duration you specify.

Now you can ask Google Assistant to “turn off the lights in five minutes” or even turn them on at a specific time, for example “turn on the living room light at 5:45 PM”. Likewise, you can ask it to turn on a light for a specific amount of time by saying “turn on the entrance light for five minutes”. I was even able to schedule events for the next day but couldn’t schedule them several days in advance.

While the features above can be useful, they still need a bit of work. First of all, when you ask Google Assistant to do something “tomorrow”, you need to specify the exact time, otherwise it will just recognize your order without asking for clarification. Also, if for some reason he misunderstands you and decides to turn your house into a nightclub in the middle of the night, there doesn’t seem to be a way to cancel the request – although you can always ask him to. ‘turn the lights off. a minute later. Fortunately, Google’s official documentation says Assistant should be able to undo a scheduled action, so this should be fixed soon.